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Dr. Ben Groom

                                                                                        

BA Econ (Sheffield) MSc Environmental and Resource Economics (London UCL),

PhD Econ (London UCL)

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Senior Lecturer in Economics

 

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Career Summary

09/05 - PRESENT
Senior Lecturer in Economics, SOAS, University of London

10/03- 09/06

Researcher for the China Council for International Cooperation in Environment and Development (CCICED).


09/00 – 05/05

PhD. University College London


01/98-01/00

Overseas Development Institute fellow

Department of Water Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Rural Affairs, Government of the Republic of Namibia

 

Curriculum Vitae
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Research Interests

Applied micro-econometrics, environmental and resource economics, development economics.

In particular: Social discounting for long-term cost benefit analysis, payments for environmental services, international environmental agreements, water economics, programme evaluation and the economics of the agricultural household

 

 

 

Teaching

Courses taught this Academic Year (2009-2010): For course documents please go to the Blackboard website: www.ble.ac.uk

Undergraduate:

Econometrics (2nd year)

Applied Econometrics Techniques (3rd Year)

Graduate:

Microeconomics (MSC)

Economics of Environment and Development (MSC)

 

 

Publications

Discounting and Intergenerational Equity

Journal Articles

n         Groom B, Koundouri P, Panipoulou K and Pantelides T (2007). ‘Declining Discount Rates: How much does model selection affect the certainty equivalent discount rate?’. Journal of Applied Econometrics. Vol. 22(3), pp. 641-656

n         Hepburn C and Groom B (2007). 'Gamma Discounting and Expected Net Future Value’. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 53, p99-109..

n         Groom B, Hepburn C, Koundouri P and Pearce D (2005).  ‘Discounting the future: the long and the short of it’. Environmental and Resource Economics (32), p445-493

n         Pearce D, Groom B, Hepburn C and Koundouri P (2003). ‘Valuing the Future: Recent Advances in Social Discounting’. World Economics (4)2 p121-141).

 

Book Chapters

n         Groom B and Koundouri P (2005). 'Sustainability Informed by Econometrics'. Ch2 in 'Econometrics Informing Natural Resource Management: Selected Empirical Analyses', Koundouri P (ed). Oates W and Folmer H 'New Horizons in Environmental Economics' Series. Edward Elgar, UK

n         Groom B (2009).  Social discounting and intergenerational justice’. Ch.12. Open University Text undergraduate text book

 

Working Papers

n         Groom B, Koundouri P, Panipoulou K and Pantelides T (2004). ‘Model Selection in the Estimation of Certainty Equivalent Discount Rates’. UCL discussion paper 04/02.

 

Payments for Environmental Services

Journal Articles

n         Groom B, Grosjean P, Kontoleon A, Swanson T and Zhang S (2009). ‘Relaxing Constraints through compensation: The impact of the Sloping Land Conversion Policy on off-farm labour supply’. Oxford Economic Papers: doi: 10.1093/oep/gpp021.

n         Groom B and Palmer C (2009) Direct versus Indirect Payments for Environmental Services: The Role of Market Constraints. Environment and Development Economics (forthcoming)

n         Gatti R, Goeschl T, Groom B and Swanson T (2009). ‘The Biodiversity Bargaining Problem’. Submitted to Environmental and Resource Economics.

 

Book Chapters

n         Groom B, Swanson T, Gatti J.R.J. and Goeschl T (2009). Bargaining over Global Public Goods. Ch 13 in “institutions for Global Public Good Provision”, Tom Dedeurwaerdeure (ed). Oxford University Press.

 

Working Papers

n         Groom B and Palmer C (2008) Direct versus Indirect Payments for Environmental Services: The Role of Market Constraints. Cambridge Land Economy Environmental Economy and Policy Research Working Paper Series #36.

n         Groom B (2005). The Sloping Lands Conversion Programme: Impacts on income, income distribution and poverty alleviation. (Work in progress from PhD Ch5).

n         Gatti R, Goeschl T, Groom B and Swanson T (2004). ‘The Biodiversity Bargaining Problem’. Submitted to Environmental and Resource Economics. Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 0447

 

Water Economics

Journal Articles

n         Groom B, Koundouri P, Nauges C and Thomas A (2008). 'The Story of the Moment: Risk Averse Cypriot Farmers respond to Drought Management’. Applied Economics. 40, p315-326

n         Groom B and Swanson T (2003). “Missing Markets and Redundant Reservoirs: Dams as a Consequence of Inefficient Groundwater Management Policies”. Environmental and Resource Economics (26)1 p125-144

n         Groom B, Liu X, Swanson T and Zhang S (2009). Equity versus Efficiency? The impact of Increasing Block Tariffs for residential water in Beijing. (submitted to Environment and Development Economics August 2009)

 

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n         Groom B, Koundouri P and Swanson T (2005). 'Efficient water allocation in Cyprus'. In “Cost Benefit Analysis and Water Resource Management’ (eds. R. Brouwer and D. Pearce), Kluwer, Netherlands.

n         Groom B, Swanson T and Koundouri P (2003). ‘The Watershed Management Approach: An Application to Cyprus’. In ‘Water Management Policy in Developing Countries’. Koundouri P, Swanson T and Xepapadeas A (eds). Edward Elgar, London.

n         Groom B and Koundouri P (2003). 'Groundwater Management'. In “Groundwater”, edited by Luis Silveira, in Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Eolss Publishers, Oxford, UK – invited paper (Also downloadable from www.eolss.net)

 

Valuation

Journal Articles

n         Groom B, Dehlavi A, Khan B and Shahab A (2009). Preferences for the environment in Pakistan: A multi-ecosystem choice experiment on the Indus River. Submitted to Environment and Development Economics, August 2009.

n         Groom B, Kontoleon A, Swanson T (2007). ‘Valuing Complex Goods: Or, can you get anything out of experts other than a decision?’. Research in Law and Economics (23) p301-331.

 

Book Chapters

n         Groom B, Dehlavi A, Khan B and Shahab A (2009). Non-use values of wetland ecosystems on the Indus River, Pakistan: A spatially explicit, multi-ecosystem choice experiment. (Forthcoming in Choice Experiments in Developing Countries: Implementation, Challenges and Policy Implications, Birol E and Bennett J (eds). IFPRI, Washington DC.

n         Groom B, Kontoleon A and Swanson T (2005). ‘Environmental Resource Information and the Validity of Non-use Values: the case of remote mountain lakes’. Ch9 in 'Econometrics Informing Natural Resource Management: Selected Empirical Analyses', Koundouri P (ed). Oates W and Folmer H 'New Horizons in Environmental Economics' Series. Edward Elgar, UK

 

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